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Samantha Lane

Samantha Lane is a sports writer with The Age's sports section. She joined The Sunday Age's sports team in 2005, where she specialised in the coverage of Australian Rules football, before joining the daily Age in 2007. She has a wealth of multi-media broadcasting experience since starting her journalism career in 2002 at www.afl.com.au. She is also a panellist on Network Ten's Before the Game. Samantha covered the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and will be reporting extensively on the 2012 London Olympics.

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Samantha Lane
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority has moved to bolster its case against Essendon players – and Stephen Dank – by seizing an interview where the biochemist discussed the use of...

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Samantha Lane
Australian football retirees concerned by the potentially dire after-effects of concussion have responded in droves to a landmark study - set to involve fully-funded brain scans - for the code.

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Samantha Lane
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority should not hesitate to share with Essendon players the evidence it has gathered to mount the case they used prohibited drug Thymosin beta 4, argues former...

Samantha Lane
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority’s confidence about the prohibited drug use cases it has alleged against 34 current and former Essendon players has been informed by a trio of the...

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Samantha Lane
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority has built a ''non-presence'' drug case against 34 Essendon footballers, adopting a strategy similar to the one used to ban Lance Armstrong without a...

Samantha Lane and Alana Schetzer
Essendon players caught up in the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority probe have been thrown a lifeline, with penalty discounts up to 75 per cent up for grabs if they ''fully co-operate'' and are...

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Samantha Lane and Jane Lee
Essendon and its outcast senior coach, James Hird, are combining forces in a stunning Federal Court appeal of the drugs investigation conducted jointly by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority...

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Samantha Lane
While authorities have leveled charges at 34 past and present Essendon players, accusing them of anti-doping rule breaches, no such move has been made on the club’s former high performance...